“An EPR collects all your data in one place and allows you to create a narrative of care, it allows you to communicate really quickly and well with your colleagues, with patients and with families,” he said.

“But there is something missing. Healthcare, generally, is missing a knowledge base.

“In any business, if you were to go to John Lewis or Selfridges, they have a knowledge base of how they deal with customers, competitors, how they deal with products and what their important ones are.”

In hospitals the only knowledge base is what a consultant or nurse individually knows about a condition, but more could be done, he said.

“We have, for example, loads of serious incidents and we have learnings from them – but is that easy to capture and replicate?” he added.

“We would like to use DRIVE to create a knowledge base, both clinically and operationally, for the hospital to provide really smart care.

“For example, a child comes in with a hole in the heart. We know that these are the serious incidents that may affect the child, this is possibly the length of stay, what other things the family might need.

“We can provide better care, we can be better at our jobs. DRIVE was never just about a children’s hospital at Great Ormond Street, but to develop a scalable thing that could do good for the NHS.”